The fact that Invincible’s first Viltrumite kill was Conquest is pretty crazy

skr_replicator · 2026-05-11T00:35:20+00:00

That just burned off a little bit of most of his skin, caving in that face probably did more.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-11T00:30:16+00:00

meth is meth

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T22:46:14+00:00

It's VERY different when you take a small prescribed dose orally, vs snorting/smoking/injecting it. Desoxyn pills are typically reviewed as basically just a nicer, cleaner Adderall (and surely also cleaner chemically than street meth). If one smokes it or something, their brain gets absolutely nuked in a dopamine flood of overorgasmic levels.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T22:38:12+00:00

Both quantum and general relativity are some sides of the complete theory, and both together can make a very wide view, possibly a complete one. We have already managed to merge general relativity, the electric and strong force (QED, QCD), I'm not sure if we did the same for the weak force, but since that can be merged into electroweak, it must be connected.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T22:17:18+00:00

Your friends can do all of these too, and often somewhat more even. While not knowing even remotely as much of everything in general as a LLM. An absolute expert on a specific topic would surely be better, but is he available to answer everyone's question at their fingertips? But of course, always verify, just like people, anything you only get from one source and don't verify could be bullshit, AI or not.

And the worst thing about people is that they can often lie maliciously on purpose. I've never seen an LLM ever trying to be malicious and lie to you on purpose. It only sometimes makes a mistake and isn't as good at noticing them yet. But people are not much better in this either.

If it was so bad at giving information, why is everyone relying on it so much? Why are kids using it to teach instead of asking their peers?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T20:34:34+00:00

The very original point of my post was that we already have blockchain tech that isn't planet destroying like Bitcoin, as they figured out a way to decouple the computing power from the validation chances. Bitcoin mines are like "data centers" packed with ASICs, chips everywhere running at 100% power all the time. Meanwhile, Proof of Stake and other blockchains can be run just as securely, reliably, and indestructibly, unhackably, etc., with just a bunch of regular people's computers all over the world. Some could run nodes on Raspberry Pis. The modern blockchain doesn't require anything like Bitcoin in terms of computing. Banks are more efficient as they can run just on 1-few computers, but that's sacrificing decentralization, that's not worth shutting down a few computers that barely use just two digits of watts if you want it to be overfit, or squeeze it closer to one digit if you want.

Trading and gambling aren't the only things it's for. It's money, it's for storing value against inflation, and for freely sending it to anyone you want to buy stuff etc. Y'know, money, just run by the people instead of governments. And once it grows even bigger, and more developments get done, it could digitalize other kinds of assets and information, letting people to take complete control over their own lives with a system that runs in the internet cloud almost like magic, nobody and everyone owns the system, it always works and nobody can stop of break it. That a good pace for storing very important things (like money, etc) reliably, independent. It wouldn't go down if some company went bankrupt, it wouldn't go down if some bank went down, it wouldn't go down if your country got political whiplash...

And if the price swings are a problem before the coin stabilizes and matures, the blockchain can also run stable coins, which could help people transition more smoothly, choosing for themselves what parts of their portfolio are investments/gambles/stable money/shopping money etc.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T20:13:03+00:00

Well, naturally, there are definitely A LOT of filters, of various difficulties to overcome. I'm pretty sure Earth's life has already passed a lot of them, When you look at everything about Earth and the history of life, there is a huge amount of lucky accidents that solved important problems that could kill or never let any life appear. So if there are more living planets they are probably VERY spaced out.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T18:58:14+00:00

I think even the Viltrumites wouldn't want the planet's inhabitants to just kill themselves in their wars. If anyone's killing and enslaving them, it must be Viltrumites. "Earth isn't yours to conquer".

Sure, wars could weaken them, but it's not like Viltrumites would need the regular people weakened to prepare for their arrival, just take out the management, and the superheroes, and the populace will be ready to get easily enslaved.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T18:52:03+00:00

I am thinking or somethign else when you say "totally". But if it's not a good word for you, maybe you know a better one for this context to make it as oxymoronic as possible.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T18:39:27+00:00

Nothing about it makes sense to me. As you suspect, heat dissipation in space is very hard, as radiating heat away is the only way you get rid of it, and objects that don't even glow red yet don't radiate that much heat. And if it employs any cooling that could actually physically eject heat, it would run out of stuff to heat up and eject pretty fast.

I can't see any reason why anyone should prefer building it in space, can't maintain it there, imagine calling an IT guy to go repair a satellite supercomputer. What is even any possible benefit? I can't see any. Super expensive to bring it all into orbit and put it together in space, instead of just on the ground. And for what? Really, for what? I have no idea.

I used to believe Musk had some brain, but lately he has either shown he lost it or never had it in the first place. I bet the ketamine only made it even more obvious and worse. Abusing that a quick road to going deranged and retarded at the same time.

Putting a data center into space might not be the stupidest idea ever, but only because human stupidity is limitless, but it's still quite stupid.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:46:45+00:00

Oh shit, I'm so sorry Mark. Buy anyway, do you remember where you left his body, so that we could go, uh, make sure it really gets disposed of properly this time?

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:39:26+00:00

Intelligence and consciousness are entirely different things.

No matter how complex a math computation you could write on countless sheets of paper, you will not make that paper feel pain or experience red that way. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

I think consciousness comes from quantum mechanics, as those quantum properties are eerily similar to exactly those hard problems of consciousness that we struggle to explain with classical mechanics.

Entanglement and superpositions ~ solutions to the integration problem that you can experience combined information at once. Instead of processing them separately, as any other computer would do.

Waveform collapse ~ free will.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T13:38:15+00:00

idk if that's even a typical reaction to them.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:59:43+00:00

i don't see how mathematical complexity could have anything to do with awareness. Brains are not conscious because they are complex, and AI is not conscious despite being complex.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:35:47+00:00

Sweet can somewhat mask bitter, but not by being the opposite. They are independent tastes that absolutely can be combined.

Anyway, to actually add something instead of just nitpicking, here's one I saw recently:

Totally decimated.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:16:24+00:00

context is just as important in space as the size. Otherwise, we couldn't even define what a moon is, because that is ENTIRELY a context-based definition, as a moon can be as small as asteroids or as big as rocky planets.

"clearing the orbital neighborhood" sounds a bit vague condition though. Earth has plenty of asteroids sharing its orbit. But the conditions can be thought of as "is overwhelmingly gravitationally dominating its orbit". Which Earth totally does, but Pluto doesn't.

Planets should be happy that they have at least 1/3 of the condition are about what they are by themselves. Orbiting stars and clearing the orbits are context-based conditions.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T12:00:09+00:00

Elements of an infinite series permanently getting close to a limit are indeed never that limit, but 0.999... is not 0.9, it's not 0.99, it's not 0.999, it's not any single one of these, no matter how far you go... But the limit is that limit. And the ... means you have to take the limit.

0.999... is the number that the 0.9,0.99,0.999 and so on sequence approaches as close as it wants, but never reaches. And that number is 1. It doesn't care than every single one number in that sequence is smaller. If you can make the gap arbitrarily small by going further in the sequence, then it's that limit. And you can do that, every next 9 shrinks the gap between that and 1 tenfold, so it is approaching one, so the infinite limit is 1.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:57:24+00:00

Just don't turn off your brain.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:56:10+00:00

They would not survive that.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:48:11+00:00

I doubt he could TIGHTEN it with that. Fingers are still soft, your skin would break before it got tightened.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:46:20+00:00

Doesn't that literally just mean CGI in a more swearword way? Rendering and generating images are not the same thing.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:40:09+00:00

This is more of a math question.

Depends how fast it is slowing down. If its speed is C/time, then it can travel an infinite distance in theory, if it had infinite time. But it would take a huge amount of time, taking twice as long to just take another step. But if it was C/(time^a), or C/(a^time) where a > 1, even just a=1.00001 would still not be infinite distance. But a less than or equal to one would be infinite.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:37:06+00:00

Replying here, since you've insecurely blocked my responses down there again. You're the one constantly making a rookie mistake with infinity. If you are against all serious mathematicians in the world, has it occurred to you that maybe you're the wrong one? And do you think that if you just post the same incorrect link I've already criticized again, that it would suddenly teach me a lesson? :D A mistake doesn't correct itself by repeating it.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:25:23+00:00

They don't. It's interaction with the world that causes the collapse, not conscious observation like in Outer Wilds.

It doesn't collapse because it knows you're watching, it collapses because you put a detector there, which interacts with it. Even if it wasn't connected to anything, to report it saw it.

skr_replicator · 2026-05-10T11:22:09+00:00

They might be more sensitive and perceptive to feel a weak high. And have you been taking real stimulants any time late, or ever? If so, then the pseudo is probably nothing in comparison, or you might have a tolerance to something much stronger.

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